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Two ballet companies are in town. For entertainment to suit even non-ballet taste, Les Ballets de Paris (National, 41st W.) is offering several new works. Marquis de Cuevas' Grand Ballet (Century, Seventh Ave. and 59th) offers a large variety of classical ballet.
Thayer's John Cuevas showed the most class in a group of freshman wrestlers who had seldom competed before. He exhibited several holds before pinning Chris Martin, also of Thayer, in the 136-pound fight.
Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of...
De Cuevas' entrance only complicated the No. 1 problem of U.S. ballet: an unprecedented scarcity of first-rate dancers. The world of U.S. ballet now contains scarcely enough top-rank talent to supply one really good ballet troupe, let alone three. Ballerinas with real dancing ability have been deserting...
But fiftyish Balletomane de Cuevas, who does an occasional pirouette and arabesque himself, is no man to be daunted by a little red ink. Five years ago he lost $300,000 backing the "Masterpieces of Art" show at the New York World's Fair. "That was a great loss...